“I try not to paint anything that is going to ruin anyone’s day.”
We just came across this clip of Jurne’s interview from YME Crew’s Film: Year-round Metal Enjoyment: A New England Freight Train Experience.
In the interview, Jurne goes deep in a discussion about his motivations for painting and his love for freight trains as important artefacts.
On style, he feels that a writer’s personality and emotions radiate through in their pieces. And he talks of the importance of being able to discuss your work, as a writer, in the same way that an artist would discuss their work.
“The buff is a way of keeping graffiti writers humble.”
Jurne admits the struggle of having a dual identity between his career in academia and his obsession with graffiti. The social stigma of being a writer, and whether it’s possible to balance the two, or whether he has to pick one path. Graffiti vs science.
We’d highly recommend watching the entire film, which you can purchase and watch here: YME FilmHere’s the official film biography:
Year-round Metal Enjoyment explores the New England origins of North American freight train graffiti, tracing the narratives of several members of the prolific YME and Circle T crews, and giving unparalleled access into the fastest growing subculture in the graffiti movement.
Challenged by the illegal nature of their passions, dangerous locales, and the pressures of a society that will not accept or understand them, these artists reveal what drives them to return, time after time, to execute their artwork on a canvas that is forever changing, moving and vanishing into oblivion.
Both snapshot of a fading history and love-letter to the trains themselves, Year-round Metal Enjoyment captures the voices, faces and thoughts of artists, railfans and train-workers alike, while showcasing the unlikely beauty of the trains in their environment.
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